Google sued for 1 billion.

Start-up alleges IP theft for migration tool



Google is being sued for $1bn by a technology start up that claims the search giant stole a migration tool it had developed.

LimitNone says that Google initially distributed its gMove tool for migrating users of Microsoft’s Outlook email system to Gmail. However it claims Google then introduced its own tool, Google Email Uploader, which is virtually identical to gMove.

“LimitNone alleges that Google's software program is essentially identical to LimitNone's product and that Google could not have developed its competing product without using the information it learned from having access to and studying LimitNone's confidential and proprietary program,” said the start-up’s attorney David A. Rammelt.

“The complaint alleges that Google's own executives predicted that the migration tool would have "50 million users," which in the end proved to great a temptation for Google.”

The papers state that in a telephone conversation Google executives told LimitNone that a market of that size would be worth around $950 million in revenues and that as such it was too much money for Google to pass up on.

LimitNone, which has five employees, was forced out of the market it claims and has now reconfigured itself to design and develop applications for the Google iPhone.



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Looks like Google is in the dumps now. 5 employees though for LimitNone. Sort of backstabbing done by them.

 

Google is suffering from severe set back these recent days.

 

They've got to have some fucking convincing proof if they're going to succeed. "Essentially similar" is so ambiguous....

 

Yay, someone else jumping on the lets sue large corporations bandwagon! Seriously, this hardly seems viable, it sounds like they are just looking for a way to make some quick cash.

 

yeah google seem to always be a good company, i can't really see them being the type of people to steal programmes, thay're not microsoft ;D

if google really wanted it i don't think they would of told limitnone how much it is worth they would of just bought it out from them before it got off the ground.

 

Mmm,

Google already won.

Small companies don't stand a chance in court, trust me, I know

 

True that, true that. Google probably has alot more lawyers than LimitNone has employees. (>0.0)>

 

Yeah I thought so, Google is just far more powerful than a unknown company. Google does have more lawyers than Limitnone have employees.